Sheet-metal brace for corner structures.



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F. A. PRICE. SHEET METAL BRAOE FOR CORNER STBUOI'UBES.

APPLICATION FILED we. 21, 1910.

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SHEET-METAL BRACE FOR CORNER STRUCTURES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 19, 1911.

Application filed August 27, 1910. Serial No. 579,336.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK A. PRICE, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Elgin, in the county of Kane and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sheet-Metal Braces for Corner Structures, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to corner fastenings for door, picture, or other frames, and the principal object of the same is to provide a corner fastening that will greatly reinforce the meeting ends of members of a frame, and also to produce a corner fastening that can be cheaply and economically produced, and can be readily applied to a frame.

In carrying out the objects of the invention generally stated above it will be understood, of course, that the essential features thereof are necessarily susceptible of changes in details and structural arrangements, one preferred and practical embodiment of which is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein z Figure 1 is a fragmentary perspective View of one corner of a frame showing the improved fastening applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Flg. 1 but seen from the opposite side. Fig. 3 is a detail plan view of the blank from which the improved fas tening is formed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings by numerals, it will be seen that the improved corner fastening and reinforcement for frames is formed of a single sheet of metal shaped to provide a fiat body 1 having one corner portion 2 thereof bent onto said body. Said corner ortion 2 is provided with right angular y bent edge flanges 34z. A narrow elongated'tongue 5 projects laterally from the opposite corner of the body 1.

As will be obvious the described blank can be readily punched or stamped from a sheet of metal by a single operation of a punching or stamping machine.

In use the body 1 is fastened to one surface of the meeting ends of the members 6 and 7 of a frame and projects beyond said members toward the interior of the frame. The corner 2 is then bent onto the body 1, and the edge flanges 3 and 4; are fastened to the inner edges of the said members, and the tongue 5 is lapped over the end of member 6 and fastened to the same upon the surface opposite to the surface to which body 1 is fastened.

It will be clear from the foregoing that this invention provides simple means for connecting the members of frames and reinforcing the same,.and also that the doubled body portion provides means whereby the flanged portion thereof can be readily fastened to the inner edges of the frame member. It will also be clear that the doubled body portion being arranged so that it projects toward the interior of the frame, provides flat corner seats for the material that is to be inclosed by the frame.

What I claim as my invention is A combined article seat and corner fastening for frames formed of a single length of sheet metal and comprising-a body portion adapted to be fastened in overlappin relation to one corner of the frame, sai body projecting toward the interior of the frame and having its projecting portion doubled to provide a flat seat for the framed article, the free edges of the doubled portion of the body being flanged for engaging the inner edges of the corner of said frame, said body having an elongated tongue projecting from a corner of the port-ion that overlaps the frame, said tongue adapted to overlap one end of one member of said frame and extended longitudinally of and fastened to said member.

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK A. PRICE.

Witnesses:

ALBERT J. KAMPMEYER, EsTER WILSON.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

